| | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 | | | | | | "People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way."
-Amy Poehler
To sign up for this newsletter click here. "People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way."
-Amy Poehler
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | Everyone on Social Media, According to Emma Watson | | |  | | Filmmakers are increasingly exploring the dark side of technology in surprising ways, and often that leads to their stars explaining their own takes on tech and social media during press tours. Take Kristen Stewart for example. She pretty much worked up a whole theory on the silly nature of text messaging while promoting Personal Shopper. Now, Emma Watson is out promoting The Circle, a flick about a dystopian tech mega-company, and is laying out her own take on social media. In a discussion with Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, Watson says she subscribes to the Warholian-thought that pretty much everyone is famous these days. "To a certain degree, everyone who uses social media or has a social media platform or whatever else is broadcasting themselves, marketing themselves, sharing intimate details of their lives," Watson continued. "And they're receiving comments, they're receiving likes, dislikes. They're experiencing exactly what I'm experiencing, of course to lesser and greater degrees. The way that the world is moving, like my experiences I don't feel like are unique so much anymore in a really interesting way." So, basically, we’re all as famous as Watson (though, no one else in the world right now is busy promoting one film while another continues to print money at the box office, so maybe not quite that famous). | | |  | | | Space Aliens, Maybe a Little Too In | Late last week, Gucci previewed a new ad campaign in which it's doing away with traditional models and using aliens instead (OK, actually, they’re just models made up to look like aliens). Then, a young student at London’s Central Saint Martins claimed that Gucci was ripping him off. He’d been photoshopping the heads of aliens from space movies onto runway models on his Instagram for weeks. The controversy grew to the point that Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele publicly and credibly denied the accusations. “Plagiarism” however probably isn’t the right term. “Recombinant Conceptualization” might be. That’s the idea that different people have similar ideas around the same time. It’s something that happens quite a lot in fashion. That’s why we have trends, after all. And for whatever reason, the idea of space aliens and sci-fi tech seem to be having quite a moment in the fashion universe this year. | | Far Too Serious Television | At 70, comedy and Broadway vet Andrea Martin is having a moment. Already a major supporting player on Hulu’s Amy Poehler-produced Difficult People, Martin takes on co-starring duty in the new Tina Fey-produced Great News, premiering tonight on NBC at 9 p.m. It couldn’t come at a better time. We all desperately need a laugh (especially in a TV season that’s failed to produce a stand-out sitcom so far). Created by stand-out 30 Rock writer Tracey Wigfeld, Great News finds Martin’s character taking a late-in-life internship at the TV news program her daughter works at (also notable: the fact Nicole Richie plays one of the anchors). Thankfully, the reviews are solid. At Vulture, reviewer Jen Chaney says her “only major complaint about this show is that I wish there were more of it to watch right this very minute.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Daniel Feinberg concludes there are “some strong episodes, some big laughs and an ensemble that could become really special if the show is given the chance to further tap its potential.” | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Zappa is a Dutch fashion cat, who seems to love aesthetics as much as catnip. | | | | | | | | | | Renée Zellweger, 48 (Last of the Great Rom-Com Stars)
Talia Shire, 71 (Hollywood’s Aunt)
Al Pacino, 77 (Original Gangster)
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